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National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave II, 1977 (ICPSR 8424)

Alternate Title: NYS 1977

Principal Investigator(s):Elliott, Delbert, University of Colorado. Institute of Behavioral Science

Summary:

Youth data for the second wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this data collection. The first wave was conducted in
1976 (ICPSR 8375). Youths were interviewed in early 1978 about events
and behavior that had occurred in 1977. Data were collected on
demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, aspirations,
social isolation, normlessness, labeling, attitudes toward deviance,
exposure to delinquent peers, commitment to delinquent peers, sex
roles, interpersonal violence, expo... (more info)

Youth data for the second wave of the National Youth Survey
are contained in this data collection. The first wave was conducted in
1976 (ICPSR 8375). Youths were interviewed in early 1978 about events
and behavior that had occurred in 1977. Data were collected on
demographic and socioeconomic status of respondents, aspirations,
social isolation, normlessness, labeling, attitudes toward deviance,
exposure to delinquent peers, commitment to delinquent peers, sex
roles, interpersonal violence, exposure to substance abuse,
self-reported delinquency, drug and alcohol use, and victimization.

Produced by the University of Colorado, Behavioral Research Institute at Boulder, CO.

Methodology

Sample:
National sample of the American youth population selected
by area probability sampling.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1985-10-09

Version History:

2008-08-26 New files were added. These files included one or more of the following: Stata setup, SAS transport (CPORT), SPSS system, Stata system, SAS supplemental syntax, and Stata supplemental syntax files, and a tab-delimited ASCII data file. Some other minor edits were made to improve the data and documentation.